September 13, 2011 - UPDATE Annie (Eclps Ann RE HTADIs - Tara x Shock 2007) was bred to Danger (HTCH ADCH SR Code Red MX AXJ HXAs TM-B GM SAM RM HTDIIIs HTADIIIs HRDIIIs RLFIIIs) started labor at 4 am.  At 5 am we welcomed into the world our next generation of Eclps Border Collies.  She had 2 males (one Black/White, one Red/White) and 6 girls (one black/white & 4 Red/Whites & one Tri Red/White).  All puppies and mom are doing great:) May 15, 2011 - UPDATE Jenny and Star (Eclps Absolute NA NAJ) earned their first Qs in Open Standard and Open Jumpers in AKC Agility with perfect clean runs!!  Congratulations to a wonderful working team. March 21, 2011 - UPDATE We went to the Agile Canines Nadac Trial in Lindstrom MN this weekend.  Saturday we had some personal greats but no qualifiying scores.  So Sunday we were really trying to see what we could do.  Ace was entered in Open Jumpers and earned a 2nd place Q, he also ran in Tunneler's Novice for the first time and earned a 2nd place Q, and he ran in Novice Standard with no Qs.  Annie was entered in Novice Jumpers and we made course time, but no Qs along with Novice Standard & no Qs, but she beat her brother Ace with a 1st place Q in Tunnelers.  Aron was entered in Novice Tunnelers and ran well, but over course time so no Qs.  Oh well, the teamwork was great and so were the personal goals we achieved.  We really need our standard equipment so we can get those contacts down and we need to work on our weave poles. In the South, Star (Tara/ Shock 07 puppy) earned both her AKC Novice Agility titles this weekend and is now: Eclps Absolute NA NAJ ~  Congratulations Star and Jenny:) January 30, 2011 - UPDATE We went to the North Star Herding Club Obedience and Rally trial to finished up Ace's CD title and Aron's RE title.  Well Ace's run on Saturday was just beautiful and we earned a 4th place 195 1/2 run under Judge Donna Larson and for his final leg he earned a 187 1/2 leg under Judge Susan Emerson.  He is now: V Eclps Ace RE HTADIs NJC NAJ CD Aron went down to finish his Rally Excellent title and did that with a fun filled run with no walk thru on Sunday with a 1st place score of 90 under Judge Donna Larson.  He is now: Eclps Aron JHD RE Ace's and Aron's titles earned this weekend means we have earned 50 performance or stockdog titles since we started to trial in 2005:) We are very proud of all our accomplishments so far. January 3, 2011 - UPDATE We decided to enter in the North Star Herding Group AKC Agility trial for Sunday Novice Jumpers with Ace and Annie.  Well Ace finished his AKC NAJ title with a 3rd place 95 Q under Judge Dan Dege for his title:) Ace is now: V Eclps Ace RE HTADIs NJC NAJ We also entered Annie in for Novice Jumpers and I pissed her off at the start line by leaving her so she pushed my every chance she could get, unfortunately between the two of us we earned to many refusals and NQed.  But she was way under course time and we are proud of our runs this weekend:) January 1, 2011 - UPDATE We attended the MN Mixed Breed Club NADAC trial this weekend.  We had a couple of goals in mind.  Finish Ace's NJC title and qualify him for BCSA Versatility.  Get some speed on Annie and go out and have fun.  Take Aron out for Tunnelers and see what he can do.  Well we did all our goals this weekend.  Ace is now: V Eclps Ace RE HTADIs NJC Ace's standard run on Friday was a disaster - he didn't know what contact obstacles were and wouldn't take any of them.  But he finished his novice jumpers title with a 2nd place under Judge Kristy Pearson.  On Saturday: his standard run was phenomenal, but I moved wrong and caused him to knock a bar - NQ, but his jumpers run was a freebie so we pushed the comfort zone and worked at a distance.  He pulled it off with a 1st place run:) Annie was 5 seconds under course time for her Friday Jumpers run, but I pulled her wrong and she dropped a bar.  Her standard run was beautiful, but again I pulled her wrong and she dropped a bar.  Bad Handler.  On Saturday her standard run was interesting to say the least. She was all over the place.  But her jumpers run was beautiful, but we were a little fumbly out there and went over course time.  Oh well - there was some beautiful teamwork out there. Aron was entered in Tunnelers on Friday and had a blast just running through the tunnels.  We were a little slow between the tunnels in our team work, but he ran the course and went over course time.  So NQ.  On Saturday he was entered in Jumpers and he just wanted to run.  We had a wrong course, a knocked bar and lots of laughs.  He will be in Tunnelers for sometime to build control:) All in all, we had a blast at the MNMBC NADAC trial:) 2011 ~ 2010 ~ 2009 ~ 2008 ~ 2007 ~ 2006 ~ 2005